Growing Friendships
A Kids' Guide to Making and Keeping Friends
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- £6.49
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- £6.49
Publisher Description
From psychologist and children’s friendships expert Eileen Kennedy-Moore and parenting and health writer Christine McLaughlin comes a social development primer that gives kids the answers they need to make and keep friends.
Friendships aren’t always easy for kids. Almost every child struggles socially at some time, in some way. Having an argument with a friend, getting teased, or even trying to find a buddy in a new classroom…although these are typical problems, they can be tough. Children want to fit in, but sometimes getting along with friends is complicated. Psychologist and children’s friendship expert Eileen Kennedy-Moore and parenting and health writer Christine McLaughlin give kids the answers they need to make and keep friends using five essential skills:
-Reaching Out to Make Friends
-Stepping Back to Keep Friends
-Blending In to Join Friends
-Speaking Up to Share With Friends
-Letting Go to Accept Friends
With research-based, practical solutions and plenty of true-to-life-examples of social skills in practice—presented in lighthearted humorous cartoons—Growing Friendships is a toolkit for both boys and girls as they make sense of the social environment around them. They will learn how to be open to friendship, choose kind friends, and most important, be a good friend.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kennedy-Moore and McLaughlin highlight five skills reaching out, stepping back, blending in, speaking up, and letting go to help readers make and maintain friendships. Each chapter introduces a dilemma relating to one of 15 fictional kids: Aiden tries too hard to be funny, Susan assumes that others are being mean behind her back, and Mackenzie has trouble joining a group. Mingus's cartoon spot illustrations and comics sequences add humor and help illustrate various points (such as the "power difference" involved in bullying, versus other social conflicts). Multiple-choice quizzes and reader-directed questions ("Do you have a habit of apologizing when you didn't do anything wrong?") invite children to apply these ideas to their own developing relationships. Ages 6 9.
